possible to file bug to change 32-bit DVD arch name from i386 to i686?

Ben Boeckel MathStuf at gmail.com
Mon Aug 10 21:58:15 UTC 2009


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Andre Robatino wrote:

> On 08/07/2009 08:26 PM, Ben Boeckel wrote:
>> yum also uses i386 for $basearch which causes (well, it's
>> chicken-and-egg) repos to have i386 directories. These should
>> also go with this update I imagine.
> 
> Is it possible to do one without the other?  It would be nice 
if the
> names of the ISOs could be changed now to reduce user 
confusion over
> whether it can install on their machine.  Having an i386 
basearch is
> probably less visible to most people.  Both changes should be 
made
> eventually but people may be too busy right now to do both.

I wrote "should" where I should have written "could". Sorry for 
the confusion. In any case, both of these changes are probably 
best done at a major release and the earliest would be F13 at 
this point.

- --Ben
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